Given the dangers associated with ongoing efforts to portray psilocybin as a drug treatment that has nothing to do with psychotherapy, we must finally begin to study this treatment with psychometric tools that are connected to the psychotherapy research literature.

Anon Psych Could it be that people whose therapist is a "match" just feel good enough about the therapist and confident enough about the goals & means of therapy (i.e., good alliance) that they don't have to seek reassurance about those things from friends and in online forums? I hope so!

I wrote about how some people have a higher intolerance of uncertainty, and how being uncomfortable with the unknown is connected to anxiety theguardian.com/wellness/2024/…

'How are pure mathematicians and professional philosophers affected [by mescaline]? It wd be interesting to try it out on a logical positivist. Would he ... say that all his philosophy was as straw and chaff, and refuse to go on with his intellectualizing?' —Huxley Lttr to Osmond

Generous personal profile on me in The Harvard Crimson. 🙏 Gay, Catholic, Mormon choir-directing neuroscientist studying spirituality? Let's go! 🧠🙌🤯 thecrimson.com/article/2024/4…

After numerous postponements, Mind Chat is back tomorrow with a special episode on psychedelics. If we get 1,000 retweets, Keith Frankish and I will trip while broadcasting. youtube.com/watch?v=fu2W5T…

And here, in super-fast time, is the audio version of last Thursday's Mind Chat on psychedelics with Sarah Lane-Ritchie and Aidan podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mind-… Philip Goff

Here is the actual registration link: vimarshafoundation.org/talkseries-reg…

In case you couldn't catch the live stream, the video for my "Kundalini Demystified" lecture is now online. I discuss how we can use traditions like kundalini yoga to advance psychedelic science. youtube.com/watch?v=86nAA8…

Turns out meditation is pretty powerful stuff!😉 psypost.org/meditation-pra…

Was macht eine psychedelische Erfahrung aus? Wie erreichen Mystiker spirituelle Gipfelerlebnisse? Der Philosoph Aidan sucht wissenschaftliche Antworten auf diese Fragen. Wir haben mit ihm darüber gesprochen. #Mystik #Spiritualität berliner-zeitung.de/gesundheit-oek…

The psychedelic renaissance has breached Walmart

Nicholas Fabiano, MD This finding of ‘increased connectivity’ has been critiqued: theconversation.com/two-reasons-im…

Awareness is not the ground—a precious quote from a meditator in Metzinger’s book:

Some key slides from my ICPR presentation last June on the Psychedelic-Kundalini thesis. 🍄🐍🔥

This is the big thing we need to collectively acknowledge, then get on with the renaissance: FIBUS: False Insights & Beliefs under Psychedelics Out now in nature’s @commspsychol ( 🧵) Hugh McGovern, Hilary Grimmer, Manoj Doss not exist, Brendan Hutchinson, Chris Timmermann, Aidan, @PhilCorlett1

I’m surprised this isn’t already a concern!!

LSD and ritalin rationale is kind of similar to intuitive rationale for MDMA + psilocybin